Comic Quotes
777 quotes by 558 authors
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Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job…
— Frank Miller
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As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.
— Shigeru Miyamoto
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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
— Alan Moore
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It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games…
— Alan Moore
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My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations,…
— Alan Moore
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My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they…
— Alan Moore
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If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.
— Dylan Moran
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If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room; you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything. I've written lots of material,…
— Dylan Moran
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When I was very young, I didn't really write my own material. I just memorized other peoples' jokes. Established comics, like Stanley Myron Handelman and…
— Kevin Nealon
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Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.
— Chris O'Dowd
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now…
— Chris O'Dowd
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When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
— Gary Oldman
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.
— Al Pacino
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In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some…
— James Patterson
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Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.
— Guy Pearce
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I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose…
— Harvey Pekar
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I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just…
— Harvey Pekar
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My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are…
— Emo Philips
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When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
— Elvis Presley
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